Example sentences of "of the [num] [noun pl] [be] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 I think that the most likely of the four possibilities was that Stalin planned the murder with Nikolaev to commit it for him .
2 The income statements of the two firms are as follows :
3 The combined income and retained earnings statement of the two firms is as follows :
4 The fourth characteristic of each of the three countries is that they have had the luck to avoid the worst of the droughts which have badly affected agriculture and hydro-electric power supplies in many African countries in the 1970s and 1980s .
5 The most ambitious of the three catalogues is that from Brussels , which includes art from Pole to Pole .
6 Another difference between the characterization of Alison and that of the three men is that she is seen totally from the outside — one sees her appearance in her face and her clothes ; we see what actions she does .
7 Taking from the 1910 sample only those marriages recorded before 1914 , which can therefore be assumed to represent the pre-war pattern , the age distribution of the twenty-nine brides was as shown in Figure 1 .
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